1. The HUBzero™ Platform for Scientific Collaboration
Michael McLennan, Purdue University
William Barnett, Indiana University
Jill Gemmill, Clemson University

2. Open Source Platform Feb 2007: 1 hub Feb 2008: 5 hubs Feb 2009: 8 hubs
2002
2007
hubzero.org
Feb 2007: 1 hub
Feb 2008: 5 hubs
Feb 2009: 8 hubs
Today: 30 hubs
Each hub has its own funding stream
Outside institutions: EPA, NYSTAR, Rice

3. What is a Hub?
Example: nanoHUB.org
Demo: MOV YouTube

4. nanoHUB.org Usage Metrics
153,704 users worldwide
As much traffic as
Users at all Top 50 US Engr Schools
19% of all .edu domains 116 classes at 97 institutions in 2009
8,800 users ran 348,000 simulations

5. Educational Use Is Growing
116 classes
at 97 institutions
in 2009
UC Berkeley is not alone In calendar 2009, there were 116 classes at 97 institutions that used nanoHUB as part of the class. Here are 3 classes at Arizona State University that have used nanoHUB consistently in class throughout the years.
nanoHUB.org Educational Usage 5

6. More than 500 citations to resources
Scaling the High-Performance Double-Gate SOI MOSFET down to 32 nm Technology Node with SiO/sub2/-based Gate Stacks
Device Physicist
Enrico Sangiorgi
University of Bologna, Italy
Analysis of Scaling Strategies for Sub-30 nm Double-Gate SOI
N-MOSFETs
Ultra-thin fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs: Special charge properties and coupling effects
Experimentalist
Akiko Ohata
IMEP Minatec, France
Electrical characteristics related to silicon film thickness in advanced FD SOI–MOSFETs

7. Projects: Earthquake Engineering Hub
NEES: $105M NSF award
14 institutions
Warehouse for data from earthquake engineering experiments
33 tools

8. Projects: Cancer Care Engineering Hub

9. Projects: Pharmaceutical Engineering Hub
$1.9M NSF CDI award Rex Reklaitis (PI)
Simulates manufacturing and drug efficacy on virtual patient populations
14 tools